Living next door to the Dingles

Internet Poker / Matthew Pitt / 25 February 2010 / 2 Comments

Regular readers of this blog will be aware that the Pudding family moved from Dewsbury towards the back end of last year and set up shop in a part of Huddersfield. The area is really nice, in fact a house less than half a mile away recently sold for £1,200,000 but unfortunately we live next door to a couple of families that resemble the Dingles from Emmerdale!

On one side we have a family that have no self respect at all. Their garden is an absolute disgrace with a broken fence, they set fire to stuff they don't want and tie their dog up with an old rope and washing line! The scruffs don't even have carpet on their stairs yet they have a new 52" Plasma TV, you all know the sort.

On the other side are a couple who are strange to say the least. The woman hasn't got a single tooth in her head, the husband is one of those types who wears an army camouflage coat and they are so mucky and skanky you wouldn't believe.

Because I work and the Mrs and I don't go out much, we have a few nice things in our house such as a flat screen tele, laptop, Blu-Ray player, Xbox stuff like that, nothing too flash but because of this the toothless army family must think we are loaded or something! There isn't a day that goes by that they don't come round to "borrow" something, which usually means we give them something they want and they never return it. In the past two weeks the following has been requested from me:

1.) Teabags on about ten occasions
2.) Milk
3.) Sugar
4.) Cling film
5.) Super glue
6.) Gravy granules
7.) My mobile phone about thirty times (which cost me £8)
8.) £5 ( I gave £3 and still haven't got it back despite the promise to pay it back)
9.) A lift into the town centre
10.) £2 for the bus when I said no to breaking off from work to give them a lift
11.) Six slices of bread

Now I don't mind helping anyone out occasionally but these two take the piss. The biggest joke was when I said I was busy working so wouldn't drive the six miles into the town centre to give gummy a lift and then she asked for a couple of quid. GFY darling! In the coming weeks I'm expecting them to ask if they can come in and have a bath, watch our TV, stroke my cat or if I can massage their bloody feet!

Pokerwise I haven't really played to be honest. I tried some Rush poker and quickly won five buy-ins at NLHE but then spunked away twice that playing PLO. The main reason I've not been playing is that I am addicted to Mass Effect and I am dying to finish it so I can buy the sequel but I also "invested" in Football Manager 2010 and I am currently trying to guide my beloved Leeds United out of League 1. yes I am a geek but you love me for it!

As always, thanks for reading and best of luck at the tables.

Comments (2)

1. Rossi | 25 February 2010

   alright mate
   i wouldnt even talk to that shower of shite you live next door to, never mind lend them anything lol
   Football manager....i have been toying about getting that for weeks.
   Football manager and its predecessor Championship manager was the thing that took all my time up from about 13-25yrs old lol....then poker.

   getting Leeds out of league One.....i have more chance of moving up in levels!!!!

2. Gavin | 25 February 2010

   Accidentally putting the super glue in the bread could stop it or having a couple of quids worth of coppers to give them and telling them you're skint too is another option.